Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-15
REAL ESTATE.
The Combination Land Co.
SPECIAL NO. 4.


wine, took their rest,
Never troubling their beautiful heads with
affairs,
| And as for their morals-the least SAID the
| best.
The scandal grew greater and greater; and
An appeal to the people was formally made,
The old gods were displaced by the suffrage
of men
And a popular government formed in their
stead"
But time rolls around, and Athena and Juno
And Daphne and Hebe and Flora and
| Crete,
And dozen or more Heathcn women whom
| you know,
Each finds work at LEucADIA, naming a
| street.
The Tyre that in Hades once twanged for
Eurydice
Now praises LEUcADIA, Queen of our Coast,
| And the Tyre tells the truth when it says
| ne'er before did see
place where the truth seems lie and
boast
Where else is spot where the fig and the
| pumpkin
Will grow side by side without water or
| care,
And each visitor feel as ii he were some kin
| To a God when he brcathes the electrical
| air?
If man has hundred or two hundred
| handy,
He will buy lot there, not a day will he
| wait,
For LEuCApIA the lovely, the darling, the
Is the brightest and neatest young town in
the State.
| For climate, for health, for beauty or bust
| ness
| 3 LEUCADIA we praise in Hexameters slow.
| Let our readers with spi its elated to dizzi-
| ness,
Attend at the auction and bid with bow.
| There are hundreds of thousands of acres
of land in Los Angeles, San Bernardino ard
san Diego counties, suitable for orchards and
vineyards.
But there is only one seaside, and only one
| LEUcADIA. There are hundreds of thousands
| of acres now dry and uncultivated. which
csn by labor be changed into garden or
| chards.
| But there is only one strip of land which
| fronts the sea, only one fundamental chord
| upon which the surges of ocean sound their
mighty diapason, only one place where Dame
Nature wears her skirt OF translucent beryl
embroidered with foamy lace. And nowhere
is this musie-room and picture gallery Of the
| Deity so attractive as at LEUCADIA.
| Capital can construct reservoirs and fumes
| and railroads: it can make distant acres ac-
| eessible, and cause arid acres to undulate
| with vcrdure.
| But the wealth OF Jay Gould could not
| bring the iodined healing breath of ocean to
the bedside of the invalid in the hot valley
or add one yard to the present limited supply
| of ocean beach.
| We say limited-go to the map and look
| All the seaside north OF Santa Barbara may
be eliminated from the list of available
occan-side property. The japanese ocean
current-the .'Gulf Stream" of the Pacific,
| in its southwark journey from Arctic waters
| hugs the shore closely from the Straits of
| Fuca to Point Conception. The result is
cold waterloo cold for comfortable bath
| ing. Monterey, for instance, is in the lati-
| tude of Savannah, Georgia, but nine people
out of ten who visit Monterey bathe in the
| big tanks where the water is warmed by arti-
| ficial heat, and do not bathe in the ocean.
| As for Santa Cruz, there is a couplet written
by some shiyering pleasure. seeker, on the
! walls OF a bath house there, which couplet ac-
curately expresses the situation.
Santa Cruz water is like Scotch snuff,
| One dip" and you've got enough"
| At Point Concepeion-just above Santa
| Barbara-the cold, ocean current continues
southwark in a direct course, while the
| Coast line defects eastwardly at a sharp
angle, and in few miles the water, under
| the genial suns of this latitude, becomes
warm enough to make bathing in any month
| of the y ar real pleasure instead of "a
painful duty reluctantly performed" as
Millard Fillmore said when he signed the
| Fugitive Slave Law, and as Brigham Young
| remarked when he married his eighteenth
wife.
From Santa Barbara south to Point Vicente,
l is n is nh I1a for
| seaside resorts. The beach is too steep for
| driving, and the surf consequently too heavy
to make bathing either pleasant or safe,
| while the bluff along the beach is several
hundred feet in height, and cut up with
arroyos, SO as to make the ocean practically
| inaccessible to all except Alpine tourists and
| crows.
| From Point Vicente to San Pedro there are
probably twenty or thirty miles OF available
| beach, along which are the towns of Santa
Monica, Ballona. Long Beach, etc.
Below San Pedro there are only mud flats
and iagoons, until San Juan by the sea is
reached. Leaving San Juan, there is no
ground available for seaside resort until
the mouth OF Temecula Canon is crossed and
| Oceanside reached. At Oceanside, the direct
| road from Los Angeles to san Diego, now in
process OF construction, will connect with
the California Southern Railroad from Col
ton to San Diego. Oceanside lots are held at
good figures fifteen hundred dollars for a
lot on the Ocean avenue and five hundred
dollars for residence lots mile and more
from the beach. South of Occanside is the
Aqua Hedionda. 1t has several miles OF fine
seaside, but the owner is able TO keep it, he
will not sell at any price, and if you annoy
him with an attempt to talk about selling, he
will make the interview as brief as may be
consistent with courtesy. Then comes Carls-
bad, and ii is a beautiful location, and there
will be large town there, and prices of bots
are already away up, as they ought to be.
From Carlsbad south there are lagoons, sand
dunes and broken ground until you reach
the mouth of the San Marcos. From the San
Marcos south to Encenitas is the prettiest site
in the world for an ocean city, land on this site
is "Leucadia"-the subject OF our sketch
lies in the lap of Paradise. She is the fairest
of all the fair daughters of the sea. She is the
Venus Amphridite OF Southern California.
The beach is hard and level. You can drive
along it for twelve miles. For bathing there
is no need of lines, for the surf is so light il
would not upset baby, and there being no
lagoons near there are in consequence no
stingrays. From the edge of the bluff over,
hanging the beach the ground slopes gently
up to the top of the first ridge, then it de-
scends gently t. valley, through which the
railroad runs then there is gradual ascent
to the top of the second ridge mile or SO
away.
The amazing thing about Leucadia, and in
which 1t differs from every other seaside in
California, is in the wonderful fertility of
its soil The valley and hill slopes are COW
cred with Fig, Apricot, Eucalyptus and
other trees, and they are green with vine
yards and corn fie DIS.
Leucadia Is in process of preparation for
the market. Streets and avenues have been
cleared, graded, staked and named after
Greek deities and persOnages. A blinking
fountain and bath house are being erected
alta white sulphur well ON Hygeria avenue.
Bath houses on the beach and steps and
grades thereto have been constructed. A
railroad station, after the model of the Pan
theon, has been built, and a dining-room
which is conducted by skilful cook. An
underground stream of water has been
struck which will be raised by cyclone mills
to a reservoir on the summit of high hill,
from which pipes are now being laid through
the avenues
TWO HUNDRED LOTS WILL BE OFFER
ED AT AUCTION ON WEDNESDAY, OC-
TOBER 26, 1887, and no lots will be sold
before that date. There will be an excursion
train from Los Angeles to San Diego and re-
| turn, leaving Los Angeles, Tuesday, October
25th, 1887. Holders of excursion tickets on
| this train will RECEIVE at the Office of the